My Birthday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIJI KLKL MNMN OPOP QRQR STST UVUV WXWX UYUY ZA2ZA2 B2VB2V ZCZC ZC2ZC2| Beneath the moonlight and the snow | A |
| Lies dead my latest year | B |
| The winter winds are wailing low | A |
| Its dirges in my ear | C |
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| I grieve not with the moaning wind | D |
| As if a loss befell | E |
| Before me even as behind | D |
| God is and all is well | E |
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| His light shines on me from above | F |
| His low voice speaks within | G |
| The patience of immortal love | F |
| Outwearying mortal sin | G |
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| Not mindless of the growing years | H |
| Of care and loss and pain | I |
| My eyes are wet with thankful tears | J |
| For blessings which remain | I |
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| If dim the gold of life has grown | K |
| I will not count it dross | L |
| Nor turn from treasures still my own | K |
| To sigh for lack and loss | L |
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| The years no charm from Nature take | M |
| As sweet her voices call | N |
| As beautiful her mornings break | M |
| As fair her evenings fall | N |
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| Love watches o'er my quiet ways | O |
| Kind voices speak my name | P |
| And lips that find it hard to praise | O |
| Are slow at least to blame | P |
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| How softly ebb the tides of will | Q |
| How fields once lost or won | R |
| Now lie behind me green and still | Q |
| Beneath a level sun | R |
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| How hushed the hiss of party hate | S |
| The clamor of the throng | T |
| How old harsh voices of debate | S |
| Flow into rhythmic song | T |
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| Methinks the spirit's temper grows | U |
| Too soft in this still air | V |
| Somewhat the restful heart foregoes | U |
| Of needed watch and prayer | V |
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| The bark by tempest vainly tossed | W |
| May founder in the calm | X |
| And he who braved the polar frost | W |
| Faint by the isles of balm | X |
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| Better than self indulgent years | U |
| The outflung heart of youth | Y |
| Than pleasant songs in idle ears | U |
| The tumult of the truth | Y |
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| Rest for the weary hands is good | Z |
| And love for hearts that pine | A2 |
| But let the manly habitude | Z |
| Of upright souls be mine | A2 |
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| Let winds that blow from heaven refresh | B2 |
| Dear Lord the languid air | V |
| And let the weakness of the flesh | B2 |
| Thy strength of spirit share | V |
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| And if the eye must fail of light | Z |
| The ear forget to hear | C |
| Make clearer still the spirit's sight | Z |
| More fine the inward ear | C |
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| Be near me in mine hours of need | Z |
| To soothe or cheer or warn | C2 |
| And down these slopes of sunset lead | Z |
| As up the hills of morn | C2 |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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